I've never owned anything but AMD machines, most of which I've built myself. I have never had any trouble with any of them. I see no reason to buy Intel's underachieving, overpriced product, especially now that their technology is playing catch-up to AMD.

i found the opposite to be true when pricing it out. for money at the time, amd couldn't touch the p4HT for the same cost.



the best amd was better, but they cost was way more than i wanted to dish out

the only thing amd does that intel doesnt, is 64bit and nothing uses 64bit right now....

i thought intel had 64 bit out.

My N64 was 64 Bit...

i know what i have is 32 bit, but like vosko said, it didn't make sense to go 64 bit because nothing uses it yet.

i know the new intels have em64t, i haven't read up on it to see what it actually does though....

I've built hundreds of systems throughout the years, and I've always been an AMD guy myself. I built a new system for myself and 2 friends of mine about 2 months ago all for under 1000 dollars easily. Then again, monitors and towers werent a issue.



Kingston memory is usually found on sale most places (atleast around here)

AMD 2800+ chips can be had for about 90 dollars or so and I've used the 2600 and 2800 in 2 different comps that get a lot of usage with no problems. No overheating issues even with huge loads, etc...



Intel has some nice stuff too, but Ive grown to dislike them based on their marketing tactics and their gay "revolutionary" advances in cpu technology (ex. Hyperthreading... lol). They are also generally higher priced simply because of their name. If you were the average user, you couldnt tell the difference between cpus while using them, I assure you.



Also video cards, you dont need dual nvidias. Infact looking at bench marks from usage dont show any higher gains over the top of the line single cards, like the nvidia 7800, etc.. (also while looking at video cards to buy, make sure you know what chipset your buying by looking on the back of the box)



You can buy referbished harddrives for 50 bucks with 100 gigs of space. I've refurbished many hard drives myself and have used other refurbed drives and had no problems. Ususally the working platters of one are swapped into the workings of another.



Anyways, if all you want to do is play games and browse the internet, there is no need to go super duper. If you were rendering movies, 3d art, cad work, etc... thats another story. You want ultra fast rendering.



With games, most of your rendering comes from the gpu, so a nice video card is going to do all the work.



here is a break down:



AMD 2800+ : $90

Generic motherboard: $70

Kingston 1 gig ram: $120

Reburb 100 gig HD: $50

Nvidia 7800: $400

(since youre doing games a soundblaster card will be fine) Sound blaster: $30

NIC : $10



right there you have a really nice system that will run any game you want at blazing speeds. All for about 750 ... of course this is without a montior (which range from 200 - 1000) a tower (30-100) keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc... but all that stuff can be had for cheap or expensive, whichever you prefer.





And I dont know why I wrote all that, no one will read it... lol

I just did. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif



But yea, like he said...

Thanks sidewinder, thats basically what I wanted. I was just basically trying to find someone with 1st hand knowledged of dual Nvidias who could tell me whether they were worth the price or not. I'm not really on a budget, but I dont wanna dish out tons of cash for **** just cause its the best right now.